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Anchor Elaine Reyes speaks with Andrew Small, Transatlantic Fellow of the Asia Program for the German Marshall Fund, about Beijing's potential role in brokering peace between Israel and Palestine
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Selling Democracy: Films of the Marshall Plan at 55th Berlinale February 12, 2004 / Berlin
With support from the German Marshall Fund, the 55th Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale) showcased a series of films about the Marshall Plan entitled “Selling Democracy.” The program, which took place from February 12–20, also featured a speech by German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer and a public discussion about the post–World War II Marshall Plan and its applicability to today’s geopolitical challenges. The Selling Democracy series of original Marshall Plan films consist of some 40 German, French, British, Italian, and Greek shorts from the late 1940s and early 1950s that documented and promoted initiatives of the “European Recovery Program” (ERP). They were screened to Berlinale audiences prior to the festival’s feature films and were also shown in schools, film-clubs, and other venues around Berlin. In an accompanying address at the German Historical Museum, Minister Fischer highlighted the Marshall Plan’s contribution to re-integrating Germany into the international system and spurring the German economic recovery of the 1950s and 1960s. The event drew an audience of roughly 150 distinguished guests, including U.S. Ambassador Daniel R. Coats. At a separate event held in cooperation with the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, GMF convened a panel of German and American politicians, journalists, and scholars to discuss the ERP and the possibility of using it as a model for stabilizing weak and failing states in other parts of the world today. The panelists — among them Hans-Ulrich Klose, vice chairman of the Bundestag’s Foreign Relations Committee — agreed that such a model might help developing countries if it is coupled with political reforms. Stefan Reinicke of the German daily Die Tageszeitung added that Marshall Plan-style development aid can only be one part of the solution — the other, he said, must be to abolish big-scale agricultural subsidies in the European Union. GMF also supported the screening of the Selling Democracy series at the 42nd New York Film Festival on October 11–15, 2004.
